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The White Pedestal How white nationalist thought leaders use ancient Greece and Rome to claim historical precedent for their violent and oppressive politics   It is difficult ...

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Texas A&M Bans Plato - Daily Nous Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course. You have a day to decide. That's a paraphrase of what Martin Peterson, professor of philosophy a...

"I’m going to pause here just to review: an institution that purports to be a university has told a philosophy professor he is forbidden from teaching Plato."

surreal times

dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...

Stanford graduates spark outrage after uncovering reason behind lack of job offers: 'A dramatic reversal from three years ago' "That has changed."

“You didn’t get a high paying job right after graduation because you got a Humanities degree instead of learning to code”

Same people: “too bad, so sad, AI can do your job and no one cares about cultivating future leadership in the field.”

Same people:

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

I went to the Worcester Art Museum a few years ago when I was in town to give a lecture at Holy Cross. While I was primarily interested in seeing the Antioch mosaics there, I was pleasantly surprised that the collection is geographically and chronologically very broad. Definitely worth a visit.

Photograph of a building blocks set of the Egyptian god Anubis, fully assembled. In the background is a sewing machine and iron

Photograph of a building blocks set of the Egyptian god Anubis, fully assembled. In the background is a sewing machine

Photograph of a building blocks set of the Egyptian god Anubis, fully assembled. Detail of the head

Photograph of a building blocks set of the Egyptian god Anubis, fully assembled. On top of a book case with a senet board. A cat is sniffing the Anubis figure.

My sister got me a building set of Anubis and I spent about 8 hours straight on it to complete him. Look how cool he is!! I’ve placed him beside my senet set and he will probably get destroyed by cats

Super interesting article on the archaeology jobs wiki and trends in archaeology job ads

Almost every major news story this week is about how the entire economy is now gambling, scams, bribes and theft.

This is much more comprehensive than my own list, and reassuringly familiar from my experience of marking. I’ll be sharing the list with my students, both to think about writing for different audiences (encyclopaedia articles) and being aware of the weakness of LLM generated text.

I participated in this excellent conference a few years ago and I encourage anyone interested to submit an abstract!

companies make it difficult or impossible to disable ai in their products because it is an authoritarian project made from a stack of consent violations in a trenchcoat

they don't give you a checkbox for "i don't want this and will never use it" because they know many people would check that box

the person behind this unhinged, anti-factual editorial is set to decide coverage at one of the nation’s major news networks

UC Berkeley shares 160 names with Trump administration in ‘McCarthy era’ move Prominent professor Judith Butler among students and faculty investigated for ‘alleged antisemitic incidents’

There are so many unforgivable actions of capitulation being taken by the institutions most well-positioned to stand up to Trump’s authoritarianism if they wished to do so.

A must-read from @samtlevin.bsky.social:

"The president's laws"...they really aren't sending their best!

Academics love to pretend to be busy as an excuse not to respond to emails but will constantly be posting on Instagram, Facebook, and the like. Get serious!

UChicago Lost Money on Crypto, Then Froze Research When Federal Funding Was Cut While Stanford responded to the federal funding research freeze by halting administrative hiring and protecting research, the University of Chicago panicked. On January 28, hours after the Trump admi...

The University of Chicago “lost tens of millions investing in crypto around 2021” Hahahahahahaha

When unis say “we won’t fire you humanities professors, we’ll just take your majors away and merge your department with two others and rename it all,” what they’re doing is they’re making humanities expertise increasingly invisible and inaccessible…

An R1 without languages programs isn't a research university, it's a joke.

Wake up babe, people are posting on the Liverpool Classics Listserv that the destruction of the Humanities in the age of the neoliberal university has nothing to do with politics

Others have more robust comments, but UChicago deciding to forgo language education—the literal thing they’re known for—and hoping that GenAI can teach grad students Akkadian and Homeric Greek is horrifying

EDITORIAL: Shared governance is dying while our Board prospers The self-serving actions of the Board are not just harmful to students and faculty today, but they are harmful to our institution as a whole and the future president who will be invited to lead it.

The kids are alright! www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

The core role of the university in society is the generational transmission of knowledge and rare skills. This has been already long forgotten by administrators who have prioritised rebranding universities as publicly-funded job-training centres in recent decades.

3 crucial roles for the university: to preserve, transmit, and create knowledge.

humanities departments, by and large, are incredibly cheap comparatively speaking. I've been at four different public institutions now, three as a student and one as faculty. At all of them, enrollments in Humanities courses were/are robust. So how do you claim the departments are failing? (2/4)

fwiw, Virginia Tech isn't an impoverished school either and yet here they are, the dean of the college, cutting a signature interdisciplinary PhD program without giving a reason other than "bad vibes"

U Chicago "has undertaken extraordinary quantities of leveraged spending in ways that benefit select units, while others, who have achieved high international ranking with little aid, have instead suffered from a withdrawal of operational in order to finance those endeavors"

Rhea Receptions

Announcing our new forum, RHEA RECEPTIONS!

“We live in an Odyssey time.” —Charlotte Higgins, The Guardian, 12 April 2025

Rhea Classical Reviews could not agree more with Ms. Higgins.

"The Mellon Foundation is no longer a source of funding for our applicants; neither is the Ford Foundation. The U.S. Fulbright program, National Science Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, and other grantors are facing draconian cuts, restrictions or elimination."

Reposting to add that off the top of my head, other museums with public domain image collections include the Met, the Getty, Cleveland Museum of Art, Yale University Art Gallery, and the Princeton University Art Museum. There's also a longer list here: apollo-magazine.com/open-access-...

Going to keep saying: a society that wants to keep functioning needs to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities